Did Moses steal the Ten Commandments from the Code of Hammurabi?

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M*W: This question has come up before. The Code of Hammurabi contains some 282 laws or rules of common behavior. Interestingly, the Ten Commandments contain only 10 of those laws (as given to Moses blah blah blah). Why only ten? Why not the full letter of the law? Why Moses, and why did he lie about how he got them on a journey that never took place?

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M*W: This question has come up before. The Code of Hammurabi contains some 282 laws or rules of common behavior. Interestingly, the Ten Commandments contain only 10 of those laws (as given to Moses blah blah blah). Why only ten? Why not the full letter of the law? Why Moses, and why did he lie about how he got them on a journey that never took place?

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Must be nice to be able to make stuff up, then call it truth. God's law was never meant to be a burden, but you don't want to hear about that. You just want do some fun hate speak about stupid theists. Otherwise, you should have put these questions in history.

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Must be nice to be able to make stuff up, then call it truth. God's law was never meant to be a burden, but you don't want to hear about that. You just want do some fun hate speak about stupid theists. Otherwise, you should have put these questions in history.

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What makes you think that all that Christianity/Judiasm/Islam, etc. crap isn't made up?

Why would he have to "steal" it? Knowledge can come to all people. Sometimes merely by mixing with different people. All people have had some form of religion. For them to seek it out, adopt it and live their lives around it, is sufficient evidence that its an intrinsic element of society. Like language, religion has a common root, but evolves enough that it gets distinctive without being exclusive.

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M*W: This question has come up before. The Code of Hammurabi contains some 282 laws or rules of common behavior. Interestingly, the Ten Commandments contain only 10 of those laws (as given to Moses blah blah blah). Why only ten? Why not the full letter of the law? Why Moses, and why did he lie about how he got them on a journey that never took place?

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The Code of Hammurabi has a few similarities with the books of Leviticus, Exodus, and Deuteronomy, but to say Moses stole Hammurabi's laws and deceitfully made them his own is simply a myth. There are many explanations for the similarities, the main one being, they revolved around common issues and the punishments they warranted. The similarities, by the way, are not too extensive. Either way, I cannot envision Moses having stolen Hammurabi's laws, for a variety of reasons. According to the Bible, Moses received the Ten Commandments in the deserts after he escaped from Egypt with his people. Hammurabi, on the other hand, revealed his laws during the Old Babylonian period, which mainly encompassed the lower Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The possibility of Moses stealing Hammurabi's code is astronomically low.

You know what I always liked about Moses and the Pentateuch - is how is writes about his own death!

Deuteronomy 34:
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the

You guys really are wedged in their deep, grab with both hands and PULL... PULLL.... PULLLLLL!!!!!

The Code of Hammurabi has a few similarities with the books of Leviticus, Exodus, and Deuteronomy, but to say Moses stole Hammurabi's laws and deceitfully made them his own is simply a myth. There are many explanations for the similarities, the main one being, they revolved around common issues and the punishments they warranted. The similarities, by the way, are not too extensive. Either way, I cannot envision Moses having stolen Hammurabi's laws, for a variety of reasons. According to the Bible, Moses received the Ten Commandments in the deserts after he escaped from Egypt with his people. Hammurabi, on the other hand, revealed his laws during the Old Babylonian period, which mainly encompassed the lower Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The possibility of Moses stealing Hammurabi's code is astronomically low.Kadark

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M*W: You are correct, but I have found that giving a thread a sensational title reaps more posts.

You know what I always liked about Moses and the Pentateuch - is how is writes about his own death!

Deuteronomy 34:
And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan, and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim, and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the utmost sea, And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar. And the LORD said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither. So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the ...

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You did notice how it's all in third person, right? Maybe Moses didn't write the whole thing?